The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior. NBER Working Paper No. 17541.

By Marianne Bertrand, Jessica Pan. 2011

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct (2018, unknown): “Bertrand and Pan (2013) found that behavioural problems in school are more prevalent among boys, especially if they grow up in single-mother households.”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “Large gender gaps in “non-cognitive” skills and problem behaviors appear early in life and are strongly correlated with later educational outcomes (Jacob 2002, DiPrete and Jennings 2012, Bertrand and Pan 2013).”
Children's schooling and parents' behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study (2013, background): “First-time applicants to HS for the fall of 2 Indeed, parenting is often thought to play an important role in explaining differences in child outcomes across racial and socioeconomic status groups (e.g. Brooks-Gunn et al.1996), as well as by gender (Bertrand and Pan 2011).”
Leaving Boys Behind (2015, background): “See for example, LoGerfo, Nichols, and Chaplin (2006); Machin and McNally (2005); Bertrand and Pan (2013).”
Teacher mindset is associated with development of students' growth mindset (2021, background): “For example, boys are shown to have poorer inhibitory control and higher incidence of externalizing than girls (Else-Quest et al., 2006), and thus may receive more direct correction (Bertrand & Pan, 2013) and criticism from teachers (Dweck et al., 1978).”
Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance (2018, background): “For example, whereas Dee (2006) finds that teacher gender has a notable effect on the test performance of a sample of eighth graders, Bertrand and Pan (2013) identify no effect of teacher gender on the gap in behavioral problems between boys and girls.”
Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood (2016, unknown): “…on child development – as measured by outcomes such as test scores, disruptive behavior, and high school graduation rates – also differ significantly by gender (Alexander, Entwisle and Olson 2007, DiPrete and Jennings 2012, Bertrand and Pan 2013, Autor and Wasserman 2013, Autor et al. 2015).”